Andre Yew

After looking at it more closely under diffuse sunlight, I can't say the two papers are the same anymore. The textures of the two papers are not the same: the Red River is more textured while the ...

Thanks Peter! Good luck with your new printer too.

On my Pro-10, to use the native papers, I set the Let printer manage colors option, and just pick the right paper in the print dialog. No idea how to softproof though. I'm curious how well your ...

I have a pretty fresh batch of Platine (backordered just recently filled from Freestyle), and an order of Red River Palo Duro Soft Gloss Rag (SGR) from last week's sale. I also have a sample of ...

I'd prefer a 16/1.4 (or 1.8) like Fuji has. But an equivalent DX set to the FX 1.8 wides would be welcome too. The D500's full-width AF array is crying out for a wide prime. Right now, I'm using ...

I've been following that discussion with some interest, and Chromix aren't the only ones who claim this. Freestyle also gets low, single-digit L* values from matte with their custom profile ...

No code needed: it's already reduced when you add it to your cart. Their Palo Duro Soft Gloss Rag is a dead ringer for Canson Platine. I just ordered a 13x19 25-sheet pack after testing out the ...

28mm is a classic street and photojournalism FOV. The Ricoh GR series of cameras, both film and digital, have had this FOV for decades, and some amazing work's been done with them. Nikon had the ...

Thanks for the link! Those Quasars look very, very interesting.

If you haven't had a chance to try the 105E, you might be very surprised and pleased with it. It is by far the best f/1.4 lens Nikon makes with respect to technical quality: the LoCA is ...

I think people ought to evaluate lenses for themselves, and use comments they find on the net whether it's from people with high expertise like anotherMike or Marianne, or hobbyists like us, as a ...

I think we have different standards and criteria for LoCA. The 58G is unusable for shooting backlit specular point sources like water droplets. Neither of the Milvus 1.4 lenses are great in this ...

To add to the review (I have this lens as well and like it quite a bit), the LoCA on this lens is pretty terrible. The AF is slow and indecisive, and it doesn't seem to have good highlight ...

I value Mike's opinions and observations about lenses, and when I'm considering a new lens, he's one of the people I always like to hear from. This is not to say that he's my only source, or that ...

All of my focusing points have been accurate with the D500 and the 50-100 and I do use my edge points a lot. This is mainly under single-point C-AF though. I can't imagine why S-AF should be ...

Mike, I admit I am very curious about this lens, but since the D500 and Sigma 50-100 cover what I need for dance, and the 135/2 for landscape, I probably won't evaluate the Sigma 135. Now, if the ...

Thanks for isolating it: now I see it. I could not tell you as the visibility is context-dependent, like how the yellow fringing wasn't visible in the first test photo and is in the 2nd photo. The ...

I did not use this lens with the 5500: I sold off my 5500 before I got the lens.

I don't notice the yellow fringing at all, maybe because the Sigma seems to render warmer? The artifacts on the S in the HSM text are more noticeable as is the green fringing along the edge of the ...

I see the contrast loss in the black band surrounding the "HSM" text, and I think this is actually a good thing: people who use shallow DoF lenses want to minimize the effect of the background, ...